Starmer appoints Labour veterans Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman as advisers after election losses
Brown will advise on global finance cooperation, while Harman will focus on women and girls as Starmer seeks to rebuild support after heavy losses.
- On Saturday, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer named former Prime Minister Gordon Brown as his special envoy on global finance. Brown will advise the Prime Minister on improving economic security and resilience.
- The appointment follows significant election results for the Labour Party, which saw them lose 1,406 seats in English local elections and dominance in Wales for the first time in over a century.
- As Starmer reorganizes his inner circle, he also appointed Harriet Harman as his advisor on women and girls. Downing Street said Brown will "advise on how global finance cooperation can help."
- Starmer faces mounting pressure to resign after the Labour Party recorded its worst losses of a governing party since 1995, surpassing the 1,330 seats lost by former Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party in 2019.
- Beyond England and Wales, the party lost four MSPs in Scotland and is now tied in second place with Reform UK with 17 seats. Starmer vowed on Friday to stay on as leader.
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Starmer, aiming for leadership reset, names Brown as adviser
LONDON: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer named former Premier Gordon Brown as his envoy on global finance on Saturday, turning to a man credited with shoring up banks during the financial crisis to bolster his support after a crushing local elections defeat. Starmer is on the back foot after his Labour Party recorded the worst losses of a governing party in municipal polls
PM admits ‘unnecessary mistakes’ after disastrous election results for Labour
Sir Keir Starmer admits he made ‘unnecessary mistakes’ in the wake of disastrous election results for Labour across England, Scotland and Wales. But he insists he will not be stepping down. The Prime Minister has appointed Labour veterans Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman as advisors – but not all Labour MPs think reaching back into the party’s past will do anything to secure its future. With two councils still to declare in England, here is the f…
Keir Starmer, British Prime Minister and Labour leader, tried to react this Saturday to Thursday's beating at the polls, announcing the return to the front line of two historical figures of contemporary Labour, former Prime Minister Gordon Brown and veteran leader Harriet Harman, in a movement interpreted inside and outside the party as an attempt to reinforce an increasingly questioned authority and to refloat a formation in crisis.
Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown was appointed United Kingdom Special Envoy for Global Finance as part of Keir Starmer's attempt to reunite rival factions within his Labour Party after the disappointing results of the local elections
Keir Starmer always thinks two or three moves ahead of the rest, even though on many occasions they have been erratic or contradictory. The British Prime Minister, aware that the internal rebellion against him is going to crescendo in the coming hours and days, after the historic collapse that the Labour Party has suffered in the municipal elections of England and the autonomous regions of Scotland and Wales, all held this week, has already prep…
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